Interesting Find in the National Probate Calendar

[chirp]

Today I was looking for the will of an ancestor in the NPC and noticed that there was an entry for the death of a teacher of languages in Manchester in 1864. The names of two of the executors interested me: Frederick Engels at an address in Manchester and Karl Marx in Middlesex.

[GrannyM]

Interesting find indeed
I wonder what the connection was with your ancestor ? Intriguing.

[chirp]

There is no connection to the person I was researching; the names were associated with the next person on the list and I just noticed the two famous names. I am sure that somewhere there is a historian who would be interested in the reference and in particular the addresses.

[Babling Brook]

Fascinating, do you know the name of the teacher and school please ?

BB   

[ThrelfallYorky]

That's fantastic! Such little gems pop up here and there, totally irrelevant to whatever we're supposed to be doing - but leading us down a pleasant little byway. I've enough trouble finding the death dates / probate records that should be in my tree, it'd never do to keep straying to adjacent columns or names. Well done! what a find.
(A languages teacher may not actually have been working at a school - quite a few seem to have been peripatetic, going to more than one establishment, or even worked from home, with private pupils, surprisingly.)

[chirp]

The teacher's name was Johann Friedrick Wilhelm Wolff. and he died on 9 May 1864 at Carter Street, Chorlton on Medlock. No school mentioned.

[ShaunJ]

Wikipedia article translated from the german original : http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Wolff_%28Publizist%29&prev=search

[ShaunJ]

Dedication of Volume 1 of Das Kapital: "To my unforgettable friend, Wilhelm Wolff. Intrepid, faithful, noble protagonist of the proletariat" per http://dbpedia.org/page/Wilhelm_Wolff

[Babling Brook]

Many thanks 'chirp' , I think you've struck gold here, you certainly have for me, it's gonna pull so many things together and hopefully so much more .. Dickens,Marx, Engels,Angel Meadow,the Sunday School story etc; etc;

Thank You, BB